CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – A driver of a car heading against the flow of traffic while fleeing a police car pursuing him for alleged illegal lane violation that resulted in the death of four Filipinos last April 3 at the Miami-Dade side of the county boundary line in Florida has been charged with fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer, criminal use of personal identification and driving with expired license.

QUEZON CITY, June 10 -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to destroy about five tons of confiscated elephant tusks estimated to be worth US$10 million or roughly P420 million in support of global effort to end the illegal trade of wildlife species.

JERSEY CITY, NJ – Councilman-At-Large Rolando Lavarro’s historic journey in Jersey City politics concluded in victory as the city’s first Filipino American councilman was re-elected for four more years and grabbed one of three contested At-Large seats in the June 11 runoff election.

MANILA, June 10 -- President Benigno S. Aquino III has signed a law declaring the province of Kalinga in the Cordillera Region as a Tourism Development Area (TDA) in a bid to boost the country's tourism industry.

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, June 11 -- Thousands of school children in remote villages of Soccsksargen Region returned to school last week in newly-built classrooms instead of the usual dilapidated, overcrowded, makeshift learning facilities.